How To Be Your Own Booking Agent: THE Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide To Successful Touring - Couverture souple

Goldstein, Jeri; Estrin, Kari

 
9781547277704: How To Be Your Own Booking Agent: THE Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide To Successful Touring

Synopsis

New Revised 4th Edition

Now How To Be Your Own Booking Agent is available in its completely Revised 4th Edition. It offers current immigration regulations for touring artists, new scripts for contacting potential presenters, strategies for contact relation management, crowdfunding and a completely revised chapter on The New Recording Industry

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Since 1998, the award-winning, How To Be Your Own Booking Agent has been among the top selling music and performing arts business books. It is regularly selected each semester by professors teaching music business and the performing arts and continually recommended by musicians and performing artists, worldwide. This unique step-by-step guide and resource book is artfully organized so that it’s easy and fun to read with savvy advice, realistic methods and action plans geared for your success.


Exciting new insights from experienced professionals in the entertainment business pepper each page. The 24 chapters are enhanced with completely updated resource sections following each chapter packed with recommended books, directories, websites, social media marketing resources and new conferences helping musicians and performing artists achieve their career goals.This Revised 4th Edition remains THE Musician’s & Performing Artist’s Guide To Successful Touring.


How To Be Your Own Booking Agent THE Musician’s & Performing Artist’s Guide To Successful Touring tackles such topics as: The Art of Negotiating; How to Eliminate Cold Calls—Make Friendly Calls; Setting Long-Term Goals; New, more Effective Telephone Techniques; Creating An Effective Promotional Package; Contracts; The Art of Touring; Managing the Road; Conferences; Trade Shows and Industry Events; Funding Sources; Crossing Borders–U.S./Canada Touring; Marketing Your Act; Accessing the Media: Print, Radio, Television and Internet Marketing; The New Record Industry; Working with Managers and Agents; When to Quit Your Day Job; Hiring Help and Ethics and Attitudes.


“As someone who has had the experience of climbing from the bottom to the top of the music industry, I find Goldsteins' book to be THE road map for taking a career from oblivion to stardom, on one’s own terms while maintaining artistic integrity! By combining universal business practices with music industry savvy, HOW TO BE YOUR OWN BOOKING AGENT is your guide to success.”


— RAVI, Singer/Songwriter, Former Guitarist for Triple GRAMMY Nominee, HANSON


The information in How To Be Your Own Booking Agent is visually accessible with worksheets and a variety of forms included throughout the book that may be copied for the artist’s use and convenience. I’ve answered most of the burning questions, provided immediately usable methods and tackled many of the foreseeable problems.


This is THE step-by-step guide to begin, create and maintain a successful touring career.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jeri Goldstein, former agent and manager, now author and music business and performing arts consultant, provides valuable resources, instruction and consulting to those navigating their way to creating a successful performing arts touring career. Having worked with some of the top touring acoustic artists on the circuit for 20 years she booked national and international tours for artists performing in music, theater and dance. How To Be Your Own Booking Agent, THE Musician’s & Performing Artist’s Guide To Successful Touring was self-published in 1998. The award-winning book, now in its 4th Edition, is used as a text book in Music Business courses at Universities across the U.S. and Canada, Berklee College of Music, NYU, Belmont University, The Musician’s Institute and the Harris Institute in Montreal are among them. The book is used by musicians and performing artists world-wide and was Amazon's # 1 Music Business book. Jeri presents live seminars internationally at industry conferences, for arts councils in the US & Canada and at universities and offers online courses for agents, managers, musicians and performing artists along with career development coaching world-wide through her Strategic Touring Career Development Programs. she has transformed her live presentation to her popular online course Booking & Touring Success Strategies & Secrets which she offers twice per year. Her information-packed articles can be found on her website, http://www.performingbiz.com/ and have been included in leading music business and entertainment trade magazines and on industry websites such as Garageband, Gig, Getsigned.com, Taxi and Discmakers newsletters. Her free action-oriented weekly audio messages, Biz Booster Hot Tips, are designed to help musicians and performing artists make consistent progress toward reaching their career goals by offering step-by-step strategies and techniques. Jeri is currently president and founder of Performingbiz, LLC. Goldstein’s background runs the gamut working inside the entertainment industry as concert promoter, tour coordinator, and commercial television production engineer for an NBC affiliate station, commercial country radio DJ, photographer and graphic artist. Jeri now makes her home in southern Florida. Contact Jeri Goldstein: 800-760-2113 jg@performingbiz.com http://www.performingbiz.com

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9780960683055: How To Be Your Own Booking Agent: THE Musician's & Performing Artist's Guide To Successful Touring

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0960683054 ISBN 13 :  9780960683055
Editeur : New Music Times, Incorporated, The, 2008
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